- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: KiLLyourTV
When I first started playing Fable, I was amazed with the way it opened. Your town was attacked by bandits and your family was killed. The fighting system is good, the magic system is good, the leveling system is good. All the features are good, but when it comes to telling a story, it just doesn't cut it. This is a major insult to RPGs, which since the days of the SNES has been built on and thrived upon a great story telling experience. Fable feels and plays a lot like Zelda 64 and after, but there are many things Fable just didn't hit the mark on, the graphics being the only exception.
For instance, Zelda is known for its crafty dungeons. With no two being the same and far from being a hack and slash all the way through. While I wasn't expecting Fable to be another Zelda class game (it is actually close in gameplay to the Dark Cloud series on PS2), it severely fails to give the sense of freedom that was announced, and the dungeons in Fable are nothing to be proud of.
The story is another thing. In my opinion, this is the backbone of ANY good Role Playing game. It feels like they knew where they were going, but in efforts to make it accessible to all audiences they turned it into one that is dry, sparse, and short. I beat the game at 15 hours and after looking back on my experience this is what I said to myself. "Man, that was fun, seeing my Hero (who doesn't have a name) change into a big, bulking generic Hero." As far as story, what story? It opened with something that could be grand, but instead I am whisked away to the "Heroes Guild." They couldn't even try to give it a clever name, they just call it Heroes Guild, where the Heroes are "bred". All the people know about them and they appear at tournaments and pursue righteousness. /vomit
All in all, Fable was a decent game, but it feels highly watered down and I don't plan on playing a second time. Man I am glad I borrowed this from my friend and didn't waste my money.
While Fable is definetly not FFX, its still a great game that has amazing graphics, awesome gameplay, astounding good/evil system. Plus u can get married, get drunk, slaughter anybody in your sight, and Particepate in mini-games and side quests, I give Fable 9.1 out of 10.
[Edited on 9/29/2004 5:50:40 AM]